From April to August 2020, there was an increase in unintentional ocular exposure to alcohol-based hand sanitizers (ABHS) among children compared with the same period in 2019, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. Investigators assessing the epidemiologic trend of pediatric eye exposures to ABHS identified more than seven times more pediatric cases of ABHS eye exposures reported in April to August 2020 compared with the same period in 2019 (9.9% of pediatric eye exposures in 2020 versus 1.3% in 2019). In 2020, there was an increase in the number of cases occurring in public places (from 16.4% in May to 52.4% in August).
